Spend all you have for loveliness,
Buy it and never count the cost;
For one white singing hour of peace
Count many a year of strife well lost,
And for a breath of ecstacy
Give all you have been, or could be. --from Barter

No one worth possessing
Can be quite possessed. --from Advice to a Girl

Shirley Temple (Shirley Jane Temple, Shirley Temple Black)(1928 - ) American Child Actress, Diploman, and U.S. Ambassador to Ghana and to Czechoslovakia; at one time perhaps the most recognized person in the world

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Good luck needs no explanation.

When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I've been getting younger ever since.

Dr. Kissinger was surprised that I knew where Ghana was.

Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle. [1989]

I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all. [from In Memoriam, 1849]

Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt,
And cling to Faith beyond the forms of Faith! [from The Ancient Sage, 1885]

I said, "I toil beneath the curse,
But, knowing not the universe,
I fear to slide from bad to worse. [from The Two Voices, 1842]

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see,
Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; [from Locksley Hall, 1842]

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore,
And the individual withers, and the world is more and more. [from Locksley Hall, 1842]

Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are —
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. [from Locksley Hall, 1842]

Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of death
Rode the six hundred. [from The Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854]

Margaret Thatcher (Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher)(1925 - ) British Prime Minister; leader of the Conservative Party and first female Prime Minister, Chair of the G8

I don't think there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime. [1973]

The men in the Soviet politburo don't have to worry about the ebb and flow of public opinion. They put guns before butter, while we put just about everything before guns. They know that they are a super power in only one sense—the military sense. They are a failure in human and economic terms. [1976]

We are not in politics to ignore peoples' worries: we are in politics to deal with them. [1978]

Pennies don't fall from heaven, they have to be earned here on earth. [1979]

No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well. [1980]

I like Mr. Gorbachev. We can do business together. [1984]

We must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend. [1985]

A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag. [1988]

Don't fall into the trap of imagining that the West can remake societies. [2002]

Don't take public opinion for granted -- but don't either underrate the degree to which good people will endure sacrifices for a worthwhile cause. [2002]

Never believe that technology alone will allow America to prevail as a superpower. [2002]

For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions. [2002]

Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper. [2002]

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

Be kind to those who surround you. I prefer that you make mistakes in kindness rather than that you work miracles in unkindness. Often just for one word, one look, one quick action, and darkness fills the heart of the one we love.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.